Pedro Bandeira, researcher at Lab2PT – University of Minho / IN2PAST, is one of the three main curators of the artistic project selected by the Portuguese Government to officially represent Portugal at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, entitled Paraíso, Hoje, (Paradise, Today.), which was granted €422,600 in financial support.

The project, co-authored by Paula Melâneo and Luca Martinucci, with Catarina Raposo and Nuno Cera as assistant curators, consists of an architectural/artistic technological installation that creates ‘an immersive environment and an interactive experience with the audience, aimed at raising awareness and awakening reflections about the relationship between human action and Nature’, according to a statement from the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

The three curators told newspaper Público that Paraíso, Hoje. is not about architecture as an object, but about ‘complicit’ architectural objects that tell a different story ‘of this paradise by the sea’ (Portugal), and that it is also the antithesis of the cult of star architects, by promoting ‘a collective construction of architectural approaches and their relationship with the territory’, writes journalist Joana Amaral Cardoso.

The Biennale Architettura 2025 – 19th International Architecture Exhibition will take place in Venice, Italy, between May 10th and November 23^rd, 2025. Paraíso, Hoje. will be on display in the Fondaco Marcello building.